To begin his path to the Tiger Cub Rank, a boy must do the following to earn the Tiger Cub Totem:

Learn the Tiger Cub Motto
Learn the Cub Scout Sign
Learn the Cub Scout Salute

Once he earns the Totem, to earn the Tiger Cub rank the Tiger Cub Scout must complete a Family Activity, a Den Activity, and a "Go See It" Activity in each of five Achievement Areas:

Making My Family Special
Where I Live
Keeping Myself Healthy and Safe
How I Tell It
Let's Go Outdoors

As he completes each Achievement, he is awarded a bead which is hung from the Totem.

He earns a WHITE bead for each required FAMILY Activity.
He earns an ORANGE bead for each required DEN Activity.
He earns a BLACK bead for each required GO SEE IT Activity.

Remember, there are NO performance requirements for a boy.
Simply participating and doing one's best in an activity constitutes completion.

Making My Family Special
1F - Family Activity: Think of one chore you can do with your adult partner. Complete it together. ~ Character Connection: Responsibility
1D - Den Activity: Make a family scrapbook
1G - Go See It Activity: Go to a library, historical society, museum, old farm, or historical building, or visit an older person in your community. Discover how family life was the same and how it was different many years ago.

Where I Live
2F - Family Activity: Look at a map of your community with your adult partner.
2D - Den Activity: Practice the Pledge of Allegiance with your den, and participate in a den or pack flag ceremony. ~ Character Connection: Citizenship
2G - Go See It Activity: Visit a police station or a fire station. Ask someone who works there how he or she helps people in your community.

Keeping Myself Healthy and Safe
3F - Family Activity: a. With your family, plan a fire drill then practice it in your home; and b. With your adult partner, plan what to do if you became lost or separated from your family in a strange place.
3D - Den Activity: Make a Food Guide Pyramid ~ Character Connection: Health and Fitness
3G - Go See It Activity: Learn the rules of a game or sport. Then, go watch an amateur or professional game or sporting event.

How I Tell It
4F - Family Activity: At a family meal, have each family member take turns telling the others one thing that happened to him or her that day. Remember to practice being a good listener while you wait for your turn to talk. ~ Character Connection: Respect
4D - Den Activity: Play "Tell It Like It Isn't"
4G - Go See It Activity: Visit a television station, radio station, or newspaper office. Find out how people there communicate with others.

Let's Go Outdoors
This achievement is also part of Cub Scouting's Leave No Trace Award.
5F - Family Activity: Go outside and watch the weather ~ Character Connection: Faith
5D - Den Activity: With a crayon or colored pencil and a piece of paper, make a leaf rubbing.
5G - Go See It Activity: Take a hike with your den.

After completing the fifteen Achievements, the Tiger Cub is awarded the Tiger Cub Patch. The patch is affixed to the reverse side of the Tiger Cub Totem until he advances to the Bobcat Rank and begins working on his Wolf Rank. At that point the Tiger Cub and Bobcat Rank patches are sewn on the Blue Cub Scout Uniform shirt.

Electives

After completing the achievements, the Tiger Cub can be awarded Tiger Track Beads, which are YELLOW disks attached to the Totem. One bead is awarded for each group of TEN Electives the Tiger Cub completes. A boy can work on both Achievements and electives concurrently, but he can't receive Tiger Track beads until he has earned the Tiger Cub Badge.

One bead is awarded for each group of TEN Electives the Tiger Cub completes. A boy can work on both Achievements and electives concurrently, but he can't receive Tiger Track beads until he has earned the Tiger Cub Badge.

1. Think of a time when your family celebrated something, and tell the den about it and
   how it made your feel.
2. Make a decoration with your family or your den. Display it or give it to someone as a gift.
3. With your family, play a card or board game, or put a jigsaw puzzle together.
4. Make a frame for a family picture.
5. Make a family mobile.
6. Along with your adult partner, teach a song to your family or to your den and sing it together.
7. Make a musical instrument and play it with others. The others can sing or have instruments of their own.
8. Invite a religious leader from your place of worship to your home or to your den meeting.
9. Help a new boy or girl get to know other people.
10. Along with your adult partner, help an elderly or shut-in person with a chore.
11. Help collect food, clothing or toys for needy families with your den or pack.
12. Make at least two cards or decorations and take them to a hospital or long-term care facility.
13. Using US pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, choose the correct coins to make the
    following amounts.
14. Together with your adult partner, read a short story or a magazine article.
15. Mix the primary colors to make orange, green and purple.
16. With your den, show or tell about something you like to collect, OR tell your den about a favorite hobby or activity.
17. Make a model.
18. Sew a button onto fabric.
19. Learn a magic trick and show it to your family or den.
20. With your den, make up a PSA (Public Service Announcement) kit to tell people about Tiger Cubs.
21. Make a puppet.
22. With your family or with your den, have a picnic -- indoors or outdoors.
23. Find out what kind of milk your family drinks and why.
24. Help the adult who is preparing the family meal to set the table and clean up afterwards.
25. Make a snack and share it with your family or den.
26. With a toy phone, or a disconnected phone, practice making phone calls and answering the telephone.
27. Talk to your adult partner about what to do if these things happened:
    • The adult who is caring for you becomes ill.
    • You are alone with someone who makes you feel uncomfortable.
28. With your adult partner, check the batteries in the smoke detector in your home or
    another building.
29. Talk with your adult partner about when you should use sunscreen. Find out whether you have any in your home and where it is kept. With your adult partner, look at a container of sunscreen and find out whether it still protects you when you are wet. Also find out how long you are protected before you have to put on more. Look for the expiration date and make sure the sunscreen is not too old.
30. Plant a seed, pit, or greens from something you have eaten.
31. Learn about an animal.
32. Make a bird feeder and then hang it outdoors.
33. With your den or family, play Cleanup Treasure Hunt.
34. With your adult partner, think of a way to conserve water or electricity and do it for one week.
35. Play a game outdoors with your family or den.
36. With your family or your den, go see a play or musical performance in your community.
37. Take a bike ride with your adult partner.
38. Visit a bike repair shop.
39. Visit the place where your adult partner or another adult works.
40. Together with an adult partner, go swimming or take part in an activity on water.
41. Visit a train station, bus station, airport or boat dock.
42. Visit a zoo or aquarium.
43. Visit a veterinarian or animal groomer.
44. Visit a dairy, a milk-processing plant, or a cheese factory.
45. Visit a bakery.
46. Visit a dentist or dental hygienist.
47. Learn about what you can recycle in your community and how you can recycle at home. Learn about things that need to be recycled in special ways, such as paint and
    batteries.
48. Take a ride on public transportation, such as a bus or train.
49. Visit a government office such as the mayor's office, the state capitol building, or a courthouse.
50. Visit a bank.

* Taken from the Cub Scout Tiger Handbook.

(Note, the totem is now
hung from the pocket
of the Tiger Cub Scout's
uniform shirt.)